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and ronald reagan, that was his successful movie. so i always gave my cousin credit -- sorry, ellen -- for electing ronald reagan. my cousin told we i needed to write a book. i just never thought i'd write this one or write it this way. so i put a lot of thought into it. didn't do the book at first, and then i did "60 minutes" with my former chief of staff. and neil and i agreed to do it together, and here's why we did. it was percent to have the two of us. it -- it was better to have the two of us. if i said this, neil could say, no, huh-uh, bob, or vice versa. so in my opinion having the two of us side by side was a better way to do that. so i went to india then and saw "60 minutes" over there. and when i saw it, i watched jack abramoff. i did this to mideast, period. -- myself, period. but i watched jack abramoff on that "60 minutes" and, you know, i could feel some of empathy. i feel empathy for anybody that's a done time. but beyond that, i just wondered where jack was going with his version of history. and then when i heard him
and ronald reagan, that was his successful movie. so i always gave my cousin credit -- sorry, ellen -- for electing ronald reagan. my cousin told we i needed to write a book. i just never thought i'd write this one or write it this way. so i put a lot of thought into it. didn't do the book at first, and then i did "60 minutes" with my former chief of staff. and neil and i agreed to do it together, and here's why we did. it was percent to have the two of us. it -- it was better to have...
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ronald reagan, he made sure he could -- during world war ii, his job was to process films taken by u.s. army cameramen. one of the new stones showed a concentration camp. he took a copy of this home and kept it. at a dinner for a movie producer and his wife were guests, they expressed their belief that atrocities were allied -- bill clinton. several years before he became president his friend and baptist minister predicted that he would become president. that's interesting. he said when he did god would never forgive him if he didn't stand by israel. one of the many things clinton did to help israel was to work exhaustively with arafat to agree to a peace agreement. eventually he blamed the palestinian leader and one his efforts failed saying arafat was impossible to deal with. i imagine that until now, it's rare ifnot unknown if the leader of one country to express his love for another. clinton said he loved -- was grief-stricken when he was assassinated. i hope this paper turning isn't coming too much on the mic. no president worked harder and was more -- than clinton did try to brok
ronald reagan, he made sure he could -- during world war ii, his job was to process films taken by u.s. army cameramen. one of the new stones showed a concentration camp. he took a copy of this home and kept it. at a dinner for a movie producer and his wife were guests, they expressed their belief that atrocities were allied -- bill clinton. several years before he became president his friend and baptist minister predicted that he would become president. that's interesting. he said when he did...
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ronald reagan was one of the hosts. my book, hollywood left and right has five on the flats, five on the right and the only time in my career -- i took of my own politics aside and take a look at 10 people willing to sacrifice a great deal and claim they been openly political. from charlie chaplin to arnold schweizer necker. one of the things i discovered are two bits of hollywood and politics. the first of hollywood has been a bastion of liberalism in the second is the hollywood has always been far more prominent than the hollywood rate and i found both wrong. first, conservatives have a longer history in hollywood and second, even though the hollywood left has been more norm numerous invisible. they have had a greater impact on american political life. you might say, how is that possible? i would say if you look at american politics writ large, there've been two foundational moments the 20th century that we are living with the battling over right now. first was the creation of a new deal welfare state under franklin r
ronald reagan was one of the hosts. my book, hollywood left and right has five on the flats, five on the right and the only time in my career -- i took of my own politics aside and take a look at 10 people willing to sacrifice a great deal and claim they been openly political. from charlie chaplin to arnold schweizer necker. one of the things i discovered are two bits of hollywood and politics. the first of hollywood has been a bastion of liberalism in the second is the hollywood has always...
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reagan as governor and president in 1880. >> it's an informal alliance. the movie stars such as john wayne, robert montgomery, robert taylor, barber stand like come in many of these names not known by your younger viewers. walt disney who is well-known for his cartoon to disney studios and a group of businessmen from the people it just insert, walter knox who established not dairy farm. leonard firestone can air to the fires down family. they came in, they decided to rebuild the republican party. democratic registration, california had far surpassed the republican party and at the same time, the republicans were very, very factionalized throughout the 1950s and the 1960s. so i'm rebuilding the party, it meant putting into the party into political campaigns, but it also meant taking these well-known stars and sending them out to eat two clubs, republican clubs throughout southern california. survivor taylor, for a dense, who is a big star in the day the sun out to places like fontana and server-side and people like ginger rogers was another republican who
reagan as governor and president in 1880. >> it's an informal alliance. the movie stars such as john wayne, robert montgomery, robert taylor, barber stand like come in many of these names not known by your younger viewers. walt disney who is well-known for his cartoon to disney studios and a group of businessmen from the people it just insert, walter knox who established not dairy farm. leonard firestone can air to the fires down family. they came in, they decided to rebuild the...
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ronald reagan opened up his presidential campaign in philadelphia, mississippi, and i wondered if the -- town happened to be where the three civil right workers were killed, three white and one black. was that a coincidence or was that a overtone to the people who seemed to connect with the dots? >> host: thank you, sir. >> guest: thank you for the question. i have not studied that particular incident so i can't tell you for sure what was going on there i do remember the press coverage at the time and there was a lot of turn about that in certain quarters. i'd like to think it was a coincidence, and i'd like to think that what reagan really was doing, though, was definitely trying to appeal to disaffected white voters in the south, who he knew would be key to his campaign as president. and a key component of that appeal has often been, since the 1964 signing of the civil rights act by a democratic president, key component has always been saying we're the party that is going to stand up for white people as opposed to being a party that grant all these rights to black people. and it's a
ronald reagan opened up his presidential campaign in philadelphia, mississippi, and i wondered if the -- town happened to be where the three civil right workers were killed, three white and one black. was that a coincidence or was that a overtone to the people who seemed to connect with the dots? >> host: thank you, sir. >> guest: thank you for the question. i have not studied that particular incident so i can't tell you for sure what was going on there i do remember the press...
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promotable friends like ronald reagan and the u.s. just as she may not have recognized the polarizing effect of her policy towards hunger strikes, she may not have appreciated the potential of long-term softening effects and the irish agreement. the agreement change the tradition and the political competition to make it even more competitive twist to those who are engaged in violence and i believe it could stop the violence. it was turned into a new history and the new history of northern ireland. with it, a new history on these islands as a whole. agreements are being reaped today with the engagement that started and continues to flow. the full effect of that moment in history on the path of irish nationalism, recognizing that today, we recognize at the time of the passing. i join others across this house. in extending my sympathies to the children and family and friends of margaret thatcher. not just in britain but across the world. margaret thatcher enjoyed many political challenges. she did not shirk from life. in the democratic n
promotable friends like ronald reagan and the u.s. just as she may not have recognized the polarizing effect of her policy towards hunger strikes, she may not have appreciated the potential of long-term softening effects and the irish agreement. the agreement change the tradition and the political competition to make it even more competitive twist to those who are engaged in violence and i believe it could stop the violence. it was turned into a new history and the new history of northern...
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jay edgar hoover, ronald reagan politics called me a hoodlum in the thugs, i resent it to this day. you don't call me a hoodlum. the process and all three stages of exhaust houses exhausted in the program. i come up through the united states air force, structure repair high performance aircraft, what have you and ect.. i was raised a confident builder. i was an architect at age 15, 16, i was the one who did all the planning for my father, adding rooms and dens to people's houses in the san fransisco bay area. i was no hoodlum. i loved my work. i loved the high-tech work, but i got interested in my civil human rights struggle. hear dr. martin luther king speak, and he was talking about how all businesses in the country would not hire businesses of color, categorized them all. got to the company, and we want our boys with bread companies to, boycott the bread companies, boycott wonder bread company and boycott them so consistently and so profoundly we want to make wonder bread wonder where the money went. [laughter] dr. king, open auditorium, 7,000 people hit the floor. i'm just one y
jay edgar hoover, ronald reagan politics called me a hoodlum in the thugs, i resent it to this day. you don't call me a hoodlum. the process and all three stages of exhaust houses exhausted in the program. i come up through the united states air force, structure repair high performance aircraft, what have you and ect.. i was raised a confident builder. i was an architect at age 15, 16, i was the one who did all the planning for my father, adding rooms and dens to people's houses in the san...
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ronald reagan in his memoir it never refers to his mentor even one time. hillary clinton in her memoir refers to her mentor maybe half a dozen times. as you have obama mentioning frank quite a bit. >> host: when would this have been? >> the entirety of the 1970's. introduced the fall of 1970 and met all the way through the time that obama left for occidental college in 1979. in "dreams from my father" he talks about one of the last forms of advice he sought out to before he left was from frank marshall davis where he went into a classic diatribes against the american way. it is interesting i found in davis's columns from the chicago star in the late forties they consistently bashing the american way in almost a decade -- identical language recorded from "dreams from my father." that came out in 1995, the audio version which can amount to thousand five, that would have been after obama as historic convention speech where obama began his meteoric rise to the presidency but in the audio version frank marshall davis is completely purged and not mentioned one t
ronald reagan in his memoir it never refers to his mentor even one time. hillary clinton in her memoir refers to her mentor maybe half a dozen times. as you have obama mentioning frank quite a bit. >> host: when would this have been? >> the entirety of the 1970's. introduced the fall of 1970 and met all the way through the time that obama left for occidental college in 1979. in "dreams from my father" he talks about one of the last forms of advice he sought out to before...
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so for all the stock and embraced of ronald reagan they are doing a disservice in my estimation to his honor and his memory because they but not elect him today given his stance on immigration as president and governor of texas taxes and some of the other social issues and goes to the heart of the struggle that mickey and i had to deal with the inside of the party trying to get the elephant to recognize its core and therefore word in this world is changing around us. and not necessarily throwing your finger up to the wind and testing the waters every 30 minutes, but standing on firm principal ground that recognizes the value of the american dream, that recognizes that these lawyers of those that ought to be part of the dreamed whether they are here now or coming in the future that understands the direction demographically that this country is taken and 30 years it will be a majority minority country. what does that mean? held to the political parties deal with that? the licht surface to the minorities that frankly what you don't believe me the change happens around, not within. the gop
so for all the stock and embraced of ronald reagan they are doing a disservice in my estimation to his honor and his memory because they but not elect him today given his stance on immigration as president and governor of texas taxes and some of the other social issues and goes to the heart of the struggle that mickey and i had to deal with the inside of the party trying to get the elephant to recognize its core and therefore word in this world is changing around us. and not necessarily...
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but when we -- if we see barack obama sort of turning to ronald reagan. might be in the best interest, pat, you might be right. then isle get optimistic for the short term. >> i'm looking to somebody to be dick a sinister but a good guy in the end. >> do you have any candidates. >> none right now. as somebody in the treasury in '84 did a footnote or two in treasury i i was talking to john about this before the session. i'm struck by the way that chairman camp's three discussion papers sort of serving the purpose in some ways. what treasury one served which is kind of a sounding board of places that where there would be a broad ranging intellectual research occurring. you may remember that treasury one was something that the white house didn't want any part of but let the treasury go off on our own with the various academic and whatever. it didn't last too long. it was popular among communities that brought up a lot of opinions. i see some similarity in camp's discussion papers and to be fair of some of the hearings that have been held on the senate financ
but when we -- if we see barack obama sort of turning to ronald reagan. might be in the best interest, pat, you might be right. then isle get optimistic for the short term. >> i'm looking to somebody to be dick a sinister but a good guy in the end. >> do you have any candidates. >> none right now. as somebody in the treasury in '84 did a footnote or two in treasury i i was talking to john about this before the session. i'm struck by the way that chairman camp's three...